Episode 17: Keep Calm and Do Yoga 

June 18 was a typically busy day in India. In the morning, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced his latest scheme, the Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan (loosely translated, Poor People’s Welfare Employment Campaign), this time to benefit migrant workers. Before noon, he had launched a historically significant initiative (under the Atma Nirbhar Bharat Abhiyan), further opening coal mining to the private sector and auctioning a tranche of blocks in protected forest areas. Meanwhile, as the number of soldiers killed, injured and captured in the Ladakh border incident with China remained slippery, the official coronavirus death toll surged above 12,000 and the number of cases was projected to reach 500,000 within a week. Despite all this, Modi appeared again in a video